Identification

Title

WFD Coastal Water Bodies Cycle 1

Alternative title(s)

WFD Coastal Waterbodies 1st Cycle

WFD Coastal Waterbodies

WFD_coastal_050k

Abstract

This record is for Approval for Access product AfA088. WFD Coastal Water Bodies Cycle 1 is a polygon Shapefile dataset containing attributes that have been collated as defined for the implementation of the Water Framework Directive (WFD). The WFD defines coastal water bodies as ‘…a surface water on the landward side of a line, every point of which is at a distance of one nautical mile on the seaward side from the nearest point of the baseline from which the breadth of territorial waters is measured, extending where appropriate up to the outer limit of transitional waters’. The delineation between coastal and transitional (estuarine) waters was determined by the Environment Agency defined transitional water bodies (see also the Lineage Statement in the Data Quality Info paragraph below). Water bodies are also split and assigned to River Basin Districts. Water bodies are attributed with a unique identifier ‘EA_WB_ID' (equivalent to WB_ID in Cycle 2) so this dataset can be linked directly to other WFD data sources such as physical characteristics, risk, classification and proposed objectives as well as Cycle 2 datasets. This dataset was previously known as WFD Coastal Waterbodies This dataset covers the layer for Cycle 1 of the Water Framework Directive. The equivalent layer for Cycle 2 is covered under WFD Transitional and Coastal water bodies Cycle 2. Please note that the Environment Agency no longer provide data for water bodies in Wales - this should now available from Natural Resources Wales. Attribution statement: © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2017. All rights reserved. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2013.

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

http://www.geostore.com/environment-agency/ds/catalogue/#/7593715e-d465-11e4-8aac-f0def148f590

protocol: http

name:

description: External version on Defra Data Services Platform

https://environment.data.gov.uk/spatialdata/wfd-coastal-waterbodies/wms

protocol: WMS

description: WFD - Coastal Water bodies Cycle 1 WMS

https://environment.data.gov.uk/spatialdata/wfd-coastal-waterbodies/wfs

protocol: WFS

description: WFD - Coastal Water bodies Cycle 1 WFS

https://environment.data.gov.uk/DefraDataDownload/?mapService=EA/WFDCoastalWaterBodiesCycle1&Mode=spatial

protocol: DSP:ESRI

description: WFD - Coastal Water bodies Cycle 1 Download

https://environment.data.gov.uk/arcgis/rest/services/EA/WFDCoastalWaterBodiesCycle1/MapServer

protocol: WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link

description: WFD - Coastal Water bodies Cycle 1 - ESRI REST Endpoint

https://support.environment.data.gov.uk/hc/en-gb

protocol: http:

description: Defra Data Services Platform Customer Forum

https://environment.data.gov.uk/arcgis/rest/services/EA/WFDCoastalWaterBodiesCycle1/FeatureServer

protocol: WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link

description: WFD Coastal Water Bodies Cycle 1 ESRI REST Feature Server Endpoint

Unique resource identifier

code

7593715e-d465-11e4-8aac-f0def148f590

codeSpace

Dataset language

eng

Spatial reference system

code identifying the spatial reference system

http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/27700

Classification of spatial data and services

Topic category

imageryBaseMapsEarthCover

inlandWaters

oceans

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

coastal

water quality

WFD

transitional

estuarine

OpenData

EAbatch2

originating controlled vocabulary

title

GEMET Thesaurus version 2.1

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2008-06-13

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

-6.236

East bounding longitude

2.072

North bounding latitude

55.816

South bounding latitude

49.943

Extent

Extent group

authority code

code identifying the extent

http://data.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/doc/country/england

Extent group

authority code

code identifying the extent

http://data.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/doc/country/wales

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

End position

Dataset reference date

date type

creation

effective date

2008-01-01

date type

revision

effective date

2012-04-03

Frequency of update

notPlanned

Quality and validity

Lineage

Coastal waters were defined by territorial waters 1 nautical mile from the Mean High Water coastline taken directly from OS 1:50K. The delineation between coastal and estuarine waters was delineated by the Environment Agency defined transitional water bodies. Water bodies are also split and assigned to River Basin Districts.

Conformity

Data format

name of format

Open format | Shapefile (SHP)

version of format

Not Applicable

Constraints related to access and use

Constraint set

Use constraints

Open Government Licence

Constraint set

Limitations on public access

There are no public access constraints to this data. Use of this data is subject to the licence identified.

Responsible organisations

Responsible party

organisation name

Environment Agency

email address

DSPcustomerforum@environment-agency.gov.uk

web address

https://support.environment.data.gov.uk/hc/en-gb

description: Defra Data Services Forum

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata on metadata

Metadata point of contact

organisation name

Environment Agency

email address

metadata@environment-agency.gov.uk

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata date

2020-09-17

Metadata language

eng